HTTP authentication is a method for a HTTP user agent to provide a user name and a certain proof confirming the user's identity when making a request. Various proofs define different HTTP Authentication methods, e.g. basic, forms, digest, or others.
Questions tagged [http-authentication]
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How to logout of Auth basic authentication with htaccess?
I'm doing HTTP basic authentication via .htaccess, and I need to logout; is this possible?
Thanks.
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Angular 8 / NodeJS CORS error: Redirect location disallowed
I am using Angular 8 with a NodeJS backend in a lab environment. I have a button in Angular which sends a value to the backend server using a POST request. When the value is received, the backend reaches out to an API server based on the value from…
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Using @ character on http auth for git pull
I need to run this command:
git pull "https://user:password@bitbucket.com/user/repo.git" master
My problem, the password include the @ character, and I end with an error like: "host asd@bitbucket.com couldn't found" where "asd" is the last part of…
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Make an http request in Java without modifying global state
Suppose I want to make an HTTP request in Java. I thought I could just do something like new URL("http://example.com").openConnection(). And it seems that for simple things I can indeed do that. However, I've run into two cases already where I…
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Using kik's API with ruby
Ok so Im learning ruby and wanted to create a bot for kik https://dev.kik.com, I just don't understand whats wrong.
Here is the Code
require 'HTTParty'
require 'base64'
require 'json'
bot_name = #bot_name
api_key = #api_key
message =…
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How does the Negotiate HTTP authentication mechanism establish a session?
As described in RFC 4559, the Negotiate mechanism may take several requests to complete a GSSAPI context. I cannot understand from the RFC what mechanism is used to associate those requests with one another, however. To take the example described in…
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Avoid Login popups when JQuery loads content with $.ajax
I have a index.html which loads 3 blocks of content using 3 different $.load(...) queries.
When I use basic http authentication , the login and pass is requested 4 times. 1 on the page load, and 1 for each content.
How can I keep the login up,…
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